Confessions Of An Actress
By Confessions Of An Actress
Episode 97 - Confessions with Meredith
#WellnessWednesday - Covert Narcissism
#WellnessWednesday - Addiction
#WellnessWednesday - Success Momentum
#WellnessWednesday - Tips to Release Stored Trauma in your Body
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#WellnessWednesday - The Million Dollar Morning Routine
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#WellnessWednesday - Depression
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#WellnessWednesday - Doing Things That Scare You
93 - Happy 2023 - Welcome Merie Productions
#WellnessWednesday - The Five Stages Of Grief
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#WellnessWednesday - 5 Steps to Reinvent Yourself
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#WellnessWednesday - 13 Principals of Think & Grow Rich
Meredith discusses Napoleon Hill's Book Think & Grow Rich
Follow along in this Fearless Motivation article link
13 Principals of Think & Grow Rich
Try to apply them yourself and watch your life change
90 - Confessions with Meredith - Thrive On All Sides
#WellnessWednesday - The 5am Club
Meredith talks about the transformation you can make with your life by joining The 5am Club, a method of starting your day from the book by Robin Sharma. Own your morning and elevate your life.
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Meredith talks about the necessary conversation of gun safety and the representation of guns in Hollywood.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jun/13/amy-schumer-julianne-moore-guns-film-tv
#WellnessWednesday - Professional & Personal Self Worth
How Do We Separate Professional and Personal Identity?
From Article https://www.thoughtfull.world/post/separating-professional-and-personal-identity
Our roles at work and our personal identity are closely intertwined. Imagine this common scenario: When someone asks us: “What do you do?” Most of us naturally reply with what wedo for work even when the question isn’t work-specific.
In social situations like these, our jobs provide us with a quick way to define and position ourselves in relation to others. While there’s nothing wrong with basing ourselves off our 9-5, it becomes concerning when our self-worth becomes too entangled with our professional lives.
A study published in the Journal of Organizational Behaviour stated how losing our jobs (andeven the fear of it) can negatively impact our self-esteem and wellbeing (1). Apart from dealing with the financial stress of job loss, people tend to struggle to separate themselves from their professional identity. So, what can we do about it?
Meredith talks about the importance of separating your work from your self worth.
A crippling and toxic connection for self esteem in actors and artists.
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#WellnessWednesday - Awards For Artists
87 - Confessions with Meredith
#WellnessWednesday - The Importance Of Downtime
86 - Confessions with Meredith
#WellnessWednesday - Expressing & Suppressing Emotions
#WellnessWednesday - Self Esteem, Doubt & Confidence
Citing an article from TheCreativeMind.net
85 - My Broadway Audition
84 - Confessions with Meredith
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#WellnessWednesday - Question Your Limiting Beliefs
#WellnessWednesday - Viceral Manipulation Therapy
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#WellnessWednesday - Protect Your Energy
82 - Confessions with Meredith
#WellnessWednesday - Self Care
81- Lois Grandi
Lois Grandi launched her performing career at age of 12, as a solo ballet dancer with The Philadelphia Orchestra. At age 17, she ventured from Philadelphia to New York, where she became enamored with Musical Theatre. Shortly thereafter, she found herself doing the Charleston, singing and having a blast in the Off Broadway production of The Boy Friend at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Thus, her initiation into the professional theatre! Roles that followed, included Louise in Carousel with John Raitt, Leisl, in The Sound of Music, Tiger Lily in Peter Pan with Sandy Duncan and Betsy Palmer, and Laurey in Oklahoma! opposite Peter Palmer. While in New York, she made many TV commercials and industrial films. She launched the choreography facet of her career, with The Music Man starring Bert Parks.
Lois moved to The San Francisco Bay Area and raised her family. Back to work after a little break, she sang in many clubs in The Bay Area and made numerous industrial films and TV commercials. She had a recurring role in the TV series Up and Coming for PBS, and performed in and directed productions in various theatres in the area. In 1984 she founded The Performing Arts Academy (later re-named The Playhouse West Academy) and founded Playhouse West Theatre in 1995.
In 2005, Lois performed as Melinda Metz in Michael Weller’s What the Night is For. “Melinda changes before your very eyes – from coquettish to a neurotic mess. The actress does an emotional striptease with unusual skill in peeling off the character’s protective layers.” (Talkinbroadway.com). Earlier at Playhouse West she played the heart wrenching, handicapped Edna in Light Sensitive by Jim Geoghan. This role won her the Best Actress Critic’s Circle Award. “Lois Grandi shines in the role of Edna” East Bay Express.
She was most recently seen in the TV series Trauma and played Melissa in Love Letters at The Willows Theatre in 2009.
www.loisgrandi.com
#WellnessWednesday - 21 Tips for a better 2021
80 - Confessions with Meredith
#WellnessWednesday - PTSD
79 - Jess LeProtto
#WellnessWednesday - NUCCA
78 - Ryan Shore
RYAN SHORE is a 2x Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominated composer, songwriter, music director, and conductor for film, television, virtual reality, games, records, concerts, events, and theater. He is often known from his scores for numerous Star Wars animated series, Scooby-Doo! films, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, and Go! Go! Cory Carson. Shore was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer / Arranger / Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, where he worked with artists including Lady Gaga, John Legend, Adam Levine, Anna Kendrick, Common, Tim McGraw, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jennifer Hudson. He is currently scoring the upcoming Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In The Heights (additional music), The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (HBO Max), Mark Steven Johnson’s romantic comedy feature Love, Guaranteed (Netflix), Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures (Lucasfilm), and score and songs for Go! Go! Cory Carson (Netflix). Shore’s 75+ scoring credits also include Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures Fun Facts (Lucasfilm), Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (Lucasfilm), Julie’s Greenroom (Netflix) starring Julie Andrews with all new Jim Henson puppets, The Shrine (Grammy Award nomination), R.L. Stine’s Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls (Emmy Award nomination), P.O.V. (Emmy Award nomination), score and songs for The Legend of Muay Thai: 9 SATRA (winner Thai Academy Award Best Score), Penn Zero: Part Time Hero (Disney), Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (Warner Bros), Scooby-Doo! And WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (Warner Bros), SpyHunter (Warner Bros), Prime (Universal), Harvard Man (Lions Gate), Cabin Fever 2(Lions Gate), score and songs for Sesame Street (PBS), and The X Factor (FOX). Shore has conducted orchestras including The New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, The Czech Philharmonic, and concerts for Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions and Soundtracks Live! featuring music from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Shore’s Broadway and theatre credits include orchestrations and arrangements for Broadway concerts starring Tony Award winners Sutton Foster, Idina Menzel, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Broderick, Kristen Chenoweth, Heather Headley, and Faith Prince, as well as music directing the Los Angeles production of Heathers: The Musical, directed by Andy Fickman. Shore plays saxophone and has performed with artists including John Williams, Matchbox Twenty, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Natalie Cole, Dave Koz, Arturo Sandoval, Gerry Mulligan, Ana Gasteyer, Mark Ballas, and Clark Terry.
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#WellnessWednesday - Hot Springs
77 - Dan Micciche
#WellnessWednesday - I Am Fully Vaccinated
76 - Nathaniel Hill
Nathaniel’s professional experience includes freelance concert and workshop producing, company management at DR Theatrical, general management on Sting's The Last Ship, theater and concert advertising at Serino/Coyne, and management work on numerous Broadway and touring companies including Hamilton, Next to Normal, Billy Elliot, Ragtime, and Wicked. Nathaniel graduated from Duke University magna cum laude, having completed the University’s first undergraduate thesis in theater producing.
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